Hasta La Ideas

pOf all the social photographs now populating the web, the ones shot inside bars or nightclubs are typically of the crappy flash variety, forever immortalizing your friends as ghastly white-skinned party ghosts. The reason has something to do with the physical design of cameras: SLRs with low-light lenses are bulky beasts that few people will always carry around, while many of us will frequently have a cell phone or point-and-shoot tucked away in a purse or pocket, and those tiny-lensed devices require flash./p

pI believe that will change due to mirrorless DSLR cameras, also called SLDs (Single Lense Digitals) growing in popularity. /p

pSeeing is believing, and I’m now sold on the image quality of SLDs. A buddy of mine recently began toting around a Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 with a 20mm/f1.7 lens, and I’m highly impressed at how well the fairly compact camera shoots in low light, perfect for documenting bar life:/p

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p[image credit: Tony Ho Loke]/p

pI’m also excited that the camera can essentially grow or remain the same in size depending on what accessories you want to slap onto it, giving you the option of how much you want to carry. For example, check out how Sony’s ID department has been busy A HREF=”https://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551storeId=10151langId=-1identifier=S_NEX_Accessories” tricking out their NEX-series cameras/A. (There’s an interview with their NEX design department A HREF=”http://www.sony.co.jp/Fun/design/activity/product/a_nex/03.html” here/A, but unfortunately it’s not yet been translated from Japanese into English, and Google Translator is not yet up to the task.)/p

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pHit the jump for a few more shots, and prepare yourself for a future filled with better photographic representations of the good times had in dimly-lit bars. I know it’s not exactly the French Revolution, but at some point we’ll all be crusty old people and those freakin’ Facebook galleries will be all we have!/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/the_form_factor_of_mirrorless_dslr_cameras_will_result_in_better_documentation_of_an_important_social_sphere_bar_life_17101.asp”(more…)/a
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